ANAHEIM www.officialhockeypanthersshop.com , Calif. (AP) It didn’t take long for Anaheim coach Randy Carlyle to pivot from the elation that comes from a big win to the realization that the next game is just as important.That’s how close the standings are in the Western Conference.Rickard Rakell scored 4:41 into overtime, lifting the Ducks to a 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Friday night.”My mind is already to the next one,” Carlyle said. ”You give yourself a few minutes to savor the win, but the bottom line is we’re in a situation where we need every point. We’re a desperate hockey club and we’re going to play a desperate hockey club coming in here on Sunday.”Los Angeles is one point ahead of Anaheim for third place in the Pacific Division. The Ducks have four games remaining while the Kings have three, but Los Angeles would have the tiebreaker if the teams finish with the same number of points because it has more wins in regulation and overtime.Anaheim holds the first wild card from the Western Conference, one point ahead of Colorado and St. Louis.The Ducks host the Avalanche on Sunday night.Nick Ritchie also scored and John Gibson saved 28 shots for the Ducks, who are 6-1-1 in their last eight games. Ondrej Kase had two assists.Drew Doughty scored and Jonathan Quick made 31 saves for the Kings, who are 4-1-2 in their last seven.Rakell’s 32nd goal came on a shot from the right circle that went over Quick’s shoulder, putting him one away from matching his career high set last season. It was the third game-winning goal for Rakell this season.Defenseman Hampus Lindholm thought his fellow Swede was due Florida Panthers T-Shirts Authentic , especially with the added advantage of open ice in overtime.”He’s one of the best in the league at moving the puck and then shooting it, and that’s why he has been scoring so many goals lately and it’s fun to see him do that,” Lindholm said.Of the last 24 games between the Kings and Ducks, 17 have been decided by one goal.”A lot of these games are the same,” Ritchie said. ”Just another Anaheim-LA game, and it usually lives up to it, and especially with four or five games left and playoff stuff on the line.”The Kings jumped in front in the first on Doughty’s first goal since March 10. Doughty’s shot from the right circle fluttered in after Gibson could not squeeze the puck under his left arm.Anze Kopitar had an assist, becoming the eighth Kings player with 90 points in a season, and the first since Wayne Gretzky in 1993-94.Ritchie tied the game with 3:05 left in the second period. He scored his second goal in four games on a backhand after Quick saved Francois Beauchemin’s initial shot.”We didn’t play good enough for the full 60 minutes to win a hockey game tonight Florida Panthers Hoodies Authentic ,” Doughty said. ”In order to beat that team you have to play a lot better.”Anaheim’s Corey Perry twice found himself in position to score in the third period, but he failed to get his stick on a one-timer and put another shot over the net. Adrian Kempe and Tanner Pearson each had good looks saved by Gibson in the closing minute of regulation.”I think at the end of the day it is going to be a big point,” Kings coach John Stevens said. ”It’s a big point, but we need two points this time of the year.”NOTES: The Ducks went 3-0-2 in the Freeway Faceoff. … Kings F Alex Iafallo (upper body) is day to day. … Dustin Brown got his career-high 33rd assist on Doughty’s goal.UP NEXTKings: Host Colorado on Monday night.Ducks: Host Colorado on Sunday night.— WASHINGTON — The Pittsburgh Penguins are reeling as they prepare to renew their rivalry with the Stanley Cup champion Washington Capitals on Wednesday night.Pittsburgh (6-4-3) limps into the nation’s capital having lost four straight (0-3-1) and being outscored 18-6 in the process.Matt Murray stopped 23 of 27 shots before being pulled in the third period as the Penguins endured a 5-1 home loss to the New Jersey Devils, who had lost three straight themselves, on Monday night. The Penguins’ goal came from defenseman Jamie Oleksiak in the first period.Article continues below ...“Obviously, we’re concerned,” Penguins coach Mike Sullivan told NHL.com. “We don’t want to lose four games in a row. In this particular point in the season, it’s so early in the season Florida Panthers Hats Authentic , it’s more about the process than anything. Right now, I think we’re chasing the game.”On Tuesday, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Sullivan’s search for answers led him to split up the power-play pairing of Evgeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby in practice.One power-play unit included Olli Maatta, Malkin, Phil Kessel, Bryan Rust and Patric Hornqvist. The other had Kris Letang, Jack Johnson, Crosby, Jake Guentzel and Dominik Simon Custom Florida Panthers Jerseys , with Crosby in a new position, manning the left-half wall.“Sometimes just like a line combination, if it gets a little stale and goes through some struggles, then sometimes just by splitting it up gives them a fresh look,” Sullivan told the Post-Gazette. “It could possibly spark something.”The Penguins have scored just twice in their last 19 power-play chances.“Our execution hasn’t really been there as a whole consistently,” Crosby told the Post-Gazette. “We’ve been guilty of maybe forcing plays or struggling in different areas. Whatever it is, we haven’t been consistent.”The Capitals (also 6-4-3) did some line tinkering before Monday night’s game against the Edmonton Oilers and it paid off.Washington coach Todd Reirden dropped Jakub Vrana from the first line to a fourth line with Travis Boyd — making his season debut — and Devante Smith-Pelly. The trio accounted for two goals on their first two shifts in a 4-2 home win over the Oilers.“I think we needed that win, and we knew they have a pretty good team,” Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin told the Washington Post. “Obviously www.officialkings.com , I think tonight the (Boyd) line set the tone. Two shifts, two goals. It’s pretty big.”Ovechkin added his 11th goal of the season and T.J. Oshie his seventh. Pheonix Copley stopped 31 shots for his second win of the season.The Capitals will be trying to win consecutive games for the first time this season when they skate against the Penguins.“You’re always looking for consistency and at times here we’ve found it for stretches, for good stretches, and right now we’re not really finding that consistency.” Oshie said. “So we’ll look to do that in our game and it starts with the start Wednesday night.”The Penguins won the teams’ first meeting of the season 7-6 in overtime on Oct. 4 at PPG Paints Arena. Letang and Guentzel scored twice for Pittsburgh, and Oshie scored twice for Washington.Braden Holtby is 8-9-3 with a 3.10 goals-against average and .906 save percentage against the Penguins. Murray is 5-4 with a 3.93 GAA and .875 save percentage versus Washington.Ovechkin has 34 goals and 23 assists in 53 career games against the Penguins. Crosby has 20 goals and 45 assists in 46 games versus Washington, and Malkin has 19 goals and 41 assists in 41 games.